Ashes over Elyra
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Last published Mon, Aug 11, 2025
The Skyborn rule above the clouds, living in towers of glass and light.
The Groundborn fight to survive below, scavenging what the storms leave behind.
Kael Veyran, a wasteland raider with nothing to lose, is captured and taken to Elyra - the floating city he's sworn to destroy. There, he meets Serenya Vale, the city's youngest engineer, brilliant and untouchable... and the one person who might hold the key to saving both their worlds.
But alliances in Elyra are as fragile as Aether glass.
Every step closer to the truth pulls Kael and Serenya deeper into lies, betrayals, and a dangerous attraction neither can afford.
The storms are rising. The city is falling.
And the only way to survive... is together.
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